MARIA DUARTE is swept along by the cocky self-belief of a ping-pong hustler in a surprisingly violent drama
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Reviews of Tenet, The Lost Prince, Centigrade, Love You Forever and Get Duked!
STEVE ANDREW recommends a lively and often moving guide to once vibrant spaces that have been abandoned or swept away
GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production whose design and cartoonish acting overwhelms the close scrutiny of characters
SUSAN DARLINGTON enjoys the raucous familiarity of a traditional topsy-turvy pantomime
RON JACOBS introduces the latest novel by the best writer of US working-class fiction writing today
Tenet (12A)
Directed by Christopher Nolan
★★★
ALL eyes are on Christopher Nolan’s epic and mind-bending sci-fi thriller, the first big blockbuster film to be released during the pandemic, in the hope that it will persuade people to return to cinemas in their droves and save the industry.
Shot in IMAX and 70mm, the visuals are dazzling and beyond spectacular and certainly need to be seen on the biggest screen possible to be appreciated.
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